Wednesday, May 30, 2012

I am excited for the upcoming gallery show opening on June 7th in the ArtsWestchester gallery."Fish Tales"( on view: June 8 - August 11, 2012) is a group art exhibition about Westchester's vital waterways.

My contribution is conservations posters and a large-scale mural about the underwater life of the Long Island Sound, done in collaboration with an amazing artist Eddie Pena. Stay tuned for photos of our mural! It's being installed as I write this...

The exhibit is curated by an artist, wildlife conservation activist and founder of R.A.R.E.(Rare Animals Really Endangered), La Benida Hui.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

My interest in augmented reality brought me to ARe2012, the third annual international augmented reality conference held in Santa Clara, CA.

I can summarize it as a jolt of intellectual stimulation and inspiration unlike anything I've ever experienced within a 48-hour period. A showcase of crazy cool tech, futuristic ideas and paradigm-shifting inventions. It's been a week since I returned from the west coast, and I have finally scanned the drawings I did while attending sessions and presentations. The event gathered an array of brilliant people from all kinds of backgrounds who deal with augmented reality one way or another. Since this is a drawing blog, I'll restrain myself to a few memorable quotes from the speakers. Besides, writing summaries is quite the daunting task.

・"Imagination rules all Realities"
"Simplexity of design: complicated but intuitive"

Sophia Parafina,
a geographer, gave a keynote on Serendipity. I didn't know something as
romantic and ephemeral of a concept as serendipity can be looked at
through the lens of data and analyzed.

The panel on Aesthetics in AR was of utmost interest to me. I was in the front row for that one! The panel consisted of Bruce Sterling (science fiction author and an art critic), BC "Heavy" Biermann of Re*Public (new media artist working with projection mapping and AR to re-imagine urban spaces), Amir Baradaran (new media artist whose installations draw on cultural heritage), and Jason Wilson (media artist, founder of "The Outer Body Experience Lab")

Jason Wilson gave his talk wearing virtual reality goggles with the video feed from a nearby camera.

I participated in Jason Wilson's Outer Body Experience installation right after. Wearing virtual reality goggles, I had to compete against another wearer of virtual reality goggles in arranging a pattern of black and white 3D paper cubes. What I saw through the goggles was a 3-rd person view of me-a direct feed from a video camera. Such. Great. Fun.

Captivated audience.

The Auggies 2012: A panel of 4 judges with Bruce Sterling in the foreground, and one of the contestants.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Dalvero Mystic AR gallery at the Museum of America and the Sea is viewable to visitors on their iPhone and Android devices.
Artworks of 24 participating artists are spread all over the Mystic Seaport at locations that inspired them, as an extension of "Restoring a Past, Charting a Future"physical gallery exhibit. Through September 2013.

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"I believe that in theindeterminacy of drawing,the contingent way thatimages arrive in the work,lies some kind of modelof how we live our lives.The activity of drawingis a way of trying tounderstand who we areand how we operatein the world. "~William Kentridge